The Firefighter Who Saved Me: 2

I told him I don't date firefighters. He decided one dinner wasn't dating.I built my life so I'd never have to depend on a man. Then my shop catches fire, and Sawyer Rourke starts showing up.The Alder Gap firefighter brings coffee. Rebuilds my display. Finds increasingly terrible excuses to stop by. He looks at me like the eighteen months we spent pretending not to notice each other are officially over.There's just one problem.I don't date firefighters. I definitely don't kiss them on the floor of my candle shop. I absolutely don't let them into the carefully independent life I built after escaping a family where help always came with strings.Sawyer is very hard to resist. He's big, competent, patient, ridiculously good with his hands, and completely certain about what he wants.Me.Now I have to decide if letting someone stand beside me means giving up the freedom I fought so hard to build. Sawyer already knows the answer.For readers who love: Protective firefighter hero Curvy, fiercely independent heroine He falls first Friends-to-lovers tension Small-town instalove Competent, working-man hero Meddling small-town neighbors High heat, low angst Guaranteed HEA